installation failure because can't fetch the file (10.6.8)

[Ken Cunningham]

On 2018-01-19, at 10:41 AM, Christopher Jones wrote:


>                                 Dload  Upload   Total   Spent    Left  Speed
>  0     0    0     0    0     0      0      0 --:--:--  0:00:01 --:--:--     0DEBUG: Fetching distfile failed: error:1407742E:SSL routines:SSL23_GET_SERVER_HELLO:tlsv1 alert protocol version
> 
> so the upstream server providing the source rejected your connection.
> 
> the SSL requirement is not a per port thing, per se, but varies according the policies of the upstream web server hosting the ports source code. For the other ports you have installed you most probably just got them from the binary tar balls, via the macports servers, which did not reject your connection. This just happens to be the first you have hit which does.

MacPorts is working on a fix for this, and has been for about 18 months.

If you would like a workable solution now, you can try this workaround that I've been using for about two years now on all systems 10.7 or less:

<https://trac.macports.org/ticket/51516#comment:19>